BREAKING: U.S. Upcoming Summit on Democracy! How about Fixing our Own First???

For a starter, POTUS’s democracy summit: Problematic invite list casts shadow on its impact. “If the summit is to be anything more than just another meeting, each attendee, including the US, will need to follow through on meaningful commitments on democracy and rights issues in the year ahead,“ argued Annie Boyajian, Sadly, we are today barely a shadow of the nation we once represented to the world. While Washington under both parties has spoken as if it is all-knowing in its moral authority, we have failed to preserve basic human decency and dignity. When the American president speaks on foreign policy, the world hears only chest-beating bravado, meaningless rhetoric about human rights and hollow claims of global greatness. Our only enduring value these days is power amid endless, self-righteous hectoring that orders all peoples around the globe to abandon their heathen ways and improve themselves according to Washington’s specifically ordained, self-serving, coffer-padding dictates. You may ask: What’s w